Category Archives: Politics and sociology

British values were Evangelical Christian values

We live, now, in a low trust society. We now expect our governments to deceive us into compliance using psychological manipulation. We assume our insurance company will be rewarding our loyalty by quietly escalating our premiums. We have no way of negotiating the cashless world without a bank account, but the banks are free to freeze our account without explanation at any time. And, of course, we take it for granted that abortions, divorces and STD will increase exponentially, that schools and universities will teach our kids perversion and political propaganda, that real wages and jobs will decline as corrupt oligarchs prosper, and that the police and courts will routinely … Continue reading

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Speech suppression more contagious than COVID – and certainly deadlier

Thames Valley Police have (through some legal device or other) cancelled an Oxford Union Debate, promoted by the Union’s female Muslim president, on whether Islam is compatible with Western civilization. She had invited Tommy Robinson, Laurence Fox and Rev Calvin Robinson, and reportedly even Jacob Rees-Mogg, to speak.

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Nudging society to destruction

Apart from anticipating the likely collapse of our entire fiat monetary system, I’ve been vaguely concerned that, as a blogger sometimes dealing with controversial subjects, I might find myself among the half million Brits now debanked each year, since the Nigel Farage case brought the issue to light. After all, I’ve already had my account blocked a couple of times, simply for making perfectly legitimate purchases the bank’s algorithms disliked. It took long calls to fraud departments to re-open it (with no way of stopping the same thing happening next time). What I didn’t expect was that my church would be debanked first.

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Unite the Kingdom May 16

I suppose many of my UK readers will be up to speed on the rally in London yesterday, organised by the infamous Tommy Yaxley-Robinson, originally known as Stephen Real-Name. But I attach a few remarks, partly for overseas readers wondering what England has become.

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Paul in Athens

When our Pastor reached the last part of Acts 17 in our serial exposition of Acts last week, I realised that Paul’s address to the Areopagus Society was even cleverer than I’ve always assumed.

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How Darwinian evolution became plausible (for a time)

Here are some thoughts on what factors provided the fertile ground for Darwinian evolutionary theory to appear plausible when it was published in 1859. This is followed by some of the problems raised at the time the theory was published, showing that they have all become more acute, rather than being resolved, since 1859. The net result is that “variation and natural selection” as the origin of species is now thoroughly implausible, and remains a consensus only by academic inertia.

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Prayers for peace

Christianity has always had an ambivalent attitude towards war, unlike Islam which is unambiguously a religion of peace… once all that is non-Islamic has been obliterated or subjugated by brute force, including the wrong kind of Muslims like the peace-loving Ahmadiyya and any daring to apostasize.

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Gospel obedience and the Spirit

We have just celebrated the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and here I am writing yet another post on Pentecostal doctrine. Why? Because Charismatic teaching is still prevalent in Evangelical churches and denominations, and because in these crucial times it actually weakens the resistance of the Church to the increasing concerted attacks of the enemy, and blunts its offensive power. False teaching must inevitably debilitate the Church Militant.

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Before knowing your enemy recognise his enmity

In a comment on my last post, Ben links to an X post that compares Islam to Tolkein’s ring of power, arguing that whoever tries to control it will be controlled, and then destroyed, by it.

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Christendom has its advantages

I was recently in touch with a friend from my old church in Essex, which has now grown to over 1,000 weekly attenders. There were only about 80 when I joined in 1987, and it has grown steadily since. That doesn’t automatically mean it’s doing something right – Hillsong and Bethel were bigger, after all, and look what’s happened to them. But in this case it is, and it’s a cause for personal rejoicing.

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